For
30 years, our presidents and Congresses failed to enforce our immigration
laws. Today, with 20 million illegal aliens living and working within
the USA, the consequences grow worse by the day. We face budget shortfalls,
15 million unemployed Americans, educational chaos and bursting prisons.

Dan
Stein, president of FAIRus.org
set forth a list of reforms that need to be addressed in this year’s
Congress.

Stein
gave these points:

To
help members of the 112th Congress prioritize the steps needed to
reinstate meaningful immigration enforcement, FAIR has just released
its Immigration Reform Agenda for the 112th Congress. This
document provides new lawmakers with a brief summary of action taken
during the previous Congress and a roadmap for moving forward with
immigration reform measures. Specific suggestions for legislation
include the following:

•
Permanently authorize E-Verify and provide adequate funding to guarantee
the future of the program;

•
Make E-Verify mandatory for all existing and new hires;

•
Complete the U.S./Mexico border fence as mandated by the Secure Fence
Act of 2006.

•
Reinstate or codify the “no-match” rule for employers
who receive notice that their employees’ social security numbers
do not match the Social Security Administration’s database;

•
Deny certain federal funds to cities that have sanctuary policies;

•
Prohibit employers from deducting wages paid to illegal aliens;

•
Fully implement US-VISIT to provide for a comprehensive entry-exit
system; and

•
Amend the language of the INA to clarify that states may not offer
illegal aliens in-state tuition under any circumstances.

The
action items in FAIR’s Immigration Reform Agenda for the
112th Congress are by no means exhaustive, but they do highlight
what FAIR considers to be the most urgent immigration-related matters
facing lawmakers as they begin their work in 2011.

“Last week the Department of Homeland Security announced that
it was cancelling the “Virtual Fence,” a project created
in 2005 to provide technological security on the U.S. southern border,”
said Stein. “This decision comes after DHS terminated funding
for the program in March 2010.

“The
goal of the virtual fence, part of the $6.7 billion Secure Border
Initiative network or SBInet, was to employ video monitoring, sensors,
and radar technology to heighten security in remote parts of the border
with Mexico. However, after nearly 5 years of development led by Boeing
and over $1 billion already spent, the proposed comprehensive technological
barrier covers only 53 miles and is widely considered a waste.

“Problems
plagued the project from the beginning. The radar and software often
failed to distinguish humans from animals – oftentimes even
erroneously detecting vegetation as illegal alien movement.

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“Technology
should complement, not replace a physical barrier on our southern
border. For the $1 billion sunk into the failed virtual fence, the
U.S. could have, and should have continued construction on a double
layer fence to add further obstacles for drug traffickers, illegal
aliens, and terrorists wanting to enter the country.”

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